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TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Woody Allen (who shared the authorship of this zany crime flick) makes his star (an inept criminal played by Woody Allen) stumble through such an incredibly long list of bungles and pitfalls that the film loses much of its comic momentum. However, the director (Woody Allen) sustains it all by providing some insanely funny moments...
Saroyan's characters are more than slightly alienated from each other, unmotivated in conventional terms, and obsessively concerned with self-expression. One boy insists that he wants to be a hoofer and comedian, though he is a pathetically inept dancer and his jokes fall flat. At one point, Joe (James Broderick) the café philosopher who dominates the stage, puts 27 sticks of gum in his mouth because he has always wanted to do it. When Saroyan says, "In the time of your life, live," one realizes almost eerily that there, 30 years ago, the cry was first raised...
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Woody Allen (who shared the authorship of this zany crime flick) has the star (an inept criminal played by Woody Allen) go through so many bungles that the film loses much of its comic momentum. However, the director (Woody Allen) sustains it all by providing some insanely funny moments...
...sheer carelessness. He feels no animosity toward the boy, and while recuperating from his wound, Catto fights the court-martial and the subsequent execution with an increasingly anguished awareness of the complexities of life. "What had been a duel, lost honorably and without resentment, became a charade, himself an inept harlequin, a clown in blue...
...continually amazed that responsible members of this faculty seem not to realize that the students' interest in faculty appointments are not inept carbon copies of faculty concerns. The faculty looks for competence in the field. and it certainly doesn't need student help in this. But expertise does not necessarily include the ability to transmit such knowledge successfully. The faculty as an entity, let's not fool ourselves, is less interested in the pedagogical abilities of a prospective colleague than students are. I think the position could be defended that a given faculty search committee could well be less competent...